Another Doc Thought

Tue Jul 26 11:25:14 EDT 2005

Hi Jon,

Im the first one to jump on the detonate button when it comes to 
idiosyncratic software i can't control. And rev really hit me where
it hurts the most last time with teh GM. I bought Rev so i could have
their GM and it became my biggest nightmare...

6 months later, i wrote my own and im 4X better off... And unless Rev
comes out with the significant bug fixes i've been waiting for, im not
upgrading... at work (enterprise), or at home (studio). 

Now, that's the casual bug i run into. I got a few 100's bugzillas and
i keep creating them. And i think that when these will be fixed, like
many others, i'll have to shell a license upgrade. Uh, that a big rant.

Dont hate, me, im just a factoid... The point is that i learned something
from that limitation, created a much more flexible and run-steady GM for
rev and MC, and now, scripting is just faster every day... But note we
dont all work at the same scale of things... 

For some a small stack can be daunting, while for others an algoritm in
a framework is much harder than the framework itself! 

Thing is that most people think this is confusing while they dont compare
it to another programming environment (most of which are 10X more confusing
and tedious) but which many new comers here dont put into the equation. 

Tried learning C lately? Ever seen a single IDE language "how to get
started"
in those IDE boxes? Did you have to buy an OS reference on top? Spend a week
in a technit website to find one stupid problem?

All these are not considered. Many of us started programming in C and didn't
ask the Symantec ThinkC or the Metrowerks team how to write C. And this is
a major problem when it's compounded with an interface - script api that is
just so oblivious to complex myobject = &(new*) thisarray.object++; kinds of
constructs.

I see a nice boat below, know a sailing boat that comes with sailing 
instructions? Know a car manufacturer that delivers the rules of the
road book along with the insurance tips and all the shortcuts to go to work?

You got my point... 

Second point... (you didn't think it was that easy did you?)

practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice,
practice, 
compile, compile, compile, compile, compile, compile, compile, compile, 
test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, 
test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, 
test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, test, 
fix a few things and hop, deliver... correct the announcement mail 3 times,
fix the url 1 or 2 times, etc...

other than that, it's marketing, and that's another manual that wasn't 
furnished in the damn ide either! 

One trick: if you build solid software from the start, you wont have to
rewrite it again and write bugzillas for the rest... that's the sorcery
of software - nobody is perfect in the chain of software - luck for those
who practice a lot, there's more than one way to do everything. That's
where the skill of programming kicks in... Rev is just a pneumatic-nailer
compared to a hammer and box of nails... Whatever you build still needs
to be based on solid computing design principles in both the GUI, the
program code, the external IO, and the best practical economic benefit
for the user.

How to use this great-maillist:

Did i mention testing? Never deliver a half-made stack for testing!
People here hate that. I got one praise for my last winNO2 plugin, 
only one testing request, and nothing else... Lots of jealous people
out there it seems who dont encourage that people test their apps, but
if you just ask if they can solve a problem then you'll get a miriad 
solutions, bug rants, etc...

cheers
Xavier
http://monsieurx.com Keep out - Taoist empty object shooting zone

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Jon
> Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 16:32
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: Another Doc Thought
> 
> "But how would you fix this?"
> 
> By making the IDE UI less confusing?!?  This is a good 
> example of why RR is so difficult for the uninitiated, and 
> still somewhat confusing to the moderately experienced.  You 
> can't be productive when you're not confident that the IDE's 
> UI is under YOUR control.
> 
> :)
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> Bill wrote:
> 
> >That happens to me all the time. I just change the name of 
> the main stack
> >back. I think it happens when you think a particular object 
> is selected and
> >it is actually the main stack that is selected.
> >
> >But how would you fix this?
> >
> >
> >On 7/26/05 9:12 AM, "Charles Hartman" 
> <charles.hartman at conncoll.edu> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>some point (??) I discover that in the locked Inspector the name of
> >>my main stack has been changed. (The title of the Inspector window
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